Bug? Barage of hits leads to failure creating worker threads / stats tracking

[Ray Barnes]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Rafael Umann <rafael.umann at terra.com.br>wrote:

> Take a look at you FDs: (linux)
>  # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
> 11730 0 5049800
>
> Varnish works with a limit of 65k file descriptors. Anything above that
> will be a problem.
>
> http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/changeset/3631
>
> If you are getting 65k FD`S we hit the same problem.
>

Thanks for the reply.  I'm barely reaching 1300:

[root at vpsbox-mia ~]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
1344    0       106235
[root at vpsbox-mia ~]#



>
> Another tip: if you are running on a 32bits system, thats your problem!
>

How does 32 bit architecture restrict me from creating > 380 threads per
process?

-Ray
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